Agenda 02-03-2026; 8-i - National Register Recommendation for Moorefields

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8 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service/National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB Control No.1024-0018 Moorefields (Additional Documentation) Orange County, N.C. Name of Property County and State miles east of the property's eastern boundary. Dimmocks Mill Road feeds into Moorefields Road (State Route 1135), an east-west secondary road that runs approximately 0.45 miles in a westerly direction before branching north into the private Moorefields drive. The house lies approximately 2,000 feet north of Moorefields Road and 1,300 feet south of the interstate.6 Vehicular parking for Moorefields has not been formalized and consists of a grassy area south of the curtilage,bounded by a white-painted, split-rail fence. An open section of fence acts as a gateway to the house; north of the fence line, the drive becomes divided (circular) as it approaches the south fagade of the house, taking an elliptical form. Although the approach to the house has historically come from the south, the present-day drive's shape and configuration date to the mid-20th century. INVENTORY OF RESOURCES Moorefields was established in a landscape that has been inhabited since the Paleoindian Period (circa 14,000-10,000 BP). Although the Moorefields property may contain pre-Contact campsites or lithic scatters, no pre-Contact sites have been recorded on the property.'In contrast, three post- Contact (i.e., Historic Period) archeological sites have been documented on the property to date: Moorefields (OSA No. 31OR696) encompasses the entire 76-acre property; the Cameron-Moore- Waddell Cemetery (31OR815), which is a 0.25-acre historic (19th-century) cemetery located approximately 750 feet southwest of the house in a wooded area; and the Draper-Savage Cemetery (31 OR816), which is a late 20th-century cemetery located 50 feet west of the house. Several surveys have been undertaken within a 2-mile radius of the property and/or including portions of the property, starting with the 1978 Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey of the Proposed Interstate 40 Extension, Durham and Orange Counties, North Carolina (31OR192) conducted by J. Terrence McCabe, Thomas H. Hargrove, and Jerry L. Cross. An Archaeological Survey of Portions of Orange County (31OR180, 31OR192, 31OR237, 31OR250, 31OR454, 31OR455) was conducted by I. Randolph Daniel, Jr. in 1994. Two additional surveys within a 2- mile radius of Moorefields were undertaken in 2002 (31OR544, 31OR545) and 2011 (31OR637). Recent archaeological investigations within the Moorefields property include the 2018 pedestrian survey of an old roadbed north of the Moorefields house by Joe Liles (31OR696) and the 2020 preliminary shove test pit (STP) survey by Emily Nisch Terrell, in which 0.10 acres immediately east of the house were STP-surveyed. Terrell also conducted a pedestrian survey of targeted areas across the property, including the Cameron-Moore-Waddell Cemetery, the site of a non-extant barn, a woodland trail and a formerly landscaped area that Draper-Savage called "the park," the site of a non-extant springhouse near Rocky Run, and the southeast pasture. In her report, Terrell identified the likely location of an outdoor kitchen and kitchen yard as well as possible quarters for enslaved laborers east of the house based on the recovery of 322 historic artifacts. Terrell also opened a single test unit northwest of the house, on the site of a former barn removed after 2014. In May 2023, Richard Grubb & Associates (RGA) conducted a geophysical survey employing magnetometry and ground-penetrating radar (GPR) at targeted locations around the property, including the Cameron-Moore-Waddell Cemetery. A pedestrian survey conducted east of the cemetery noted a large patch of periwinkle and yucca—plants historically associated with burials—beginning approximately 20 feet east of the cemetery walls. Within this area, the Section 7 page 6